Like the BLM marches in the summer, there is unlikely to be infection clusters associated with these parties because THEY ARE WEARING MASKS LIKE RESPONSIBLE ADULTS.

From what I’ve seen, it looks like 90% are wearing masks. And it is outdoors. I saw an analysis that said the Sturgis rally was responsible for 260,000 COVID cases. There were very few masks among that crowd, and during their stops they were crammed indoors in bars, also maskless.

Those are not hispanic voters. Their Batista lieutenants and their kids who are still hoping to get their Cuban plantations back.

Well, see, it adds up like this....Trump is a delusional lunatic.

You do realize plenty of people have been saying that exact thing about BIPOC characters in movies for literal decades or have you NOT seen Taye Diggs in Malibu’s Most Wanted?

Representation matters, especially in a kids’ movie where the target audience is highly impressionable and tend to be sorely lacking in what the…

The issue isn’t that people with hand deformities are being portrayed as bad people or shitty human beings, it’s that they’re being portrayed as explicitly nonhuman witches that eat children. That’s a big difference. Especially in a movie that is being watched by kids.

Umm... People have protested minorities being represented negatively as villains or token characters pretty much since Birth of a Nation. I think you’ll find most folks that visit this site agree that’s a negative thing. I’m not sure the point you think you’re making by saying that “you could say” black people being…

I think you touch on the issue here, but don’t really get into it in depth.

There are so many situation-appropriate slurs you could sling before getting into ones that men have used against us for millennia.

Yeah, this little thinkpiece was a little gross and illogical AF. Not calling women wh*res in a rape culture and a femicide culture has nothing to do with being asked to like every woman for feminism. If her husband left her for a guy, you wouldn’t see the use of fag being justified with, “you no have to like EVERY…

Was she fucking your husband for money? No? Well then no don’t call her a whore. She can be an asshat or a terrible friend. You have a right to be angry but doesn’t give you the right to use a slur. This is a bit like saying can I use a racist slur because my car got totaled in a accident and the person was x race.…

I agree she’s too focused on the friend and not the husband — or her own shortcomings in the marriage, perhaps? Displacement and whatnot.

That’s exactly my issue with this as well. And I do think the race parallel is fair. If my SO cheated on me with a POC, it would not suddenly be ok to use racist language. I would posit it’s these moments that try our personal ethics the most. When we’re really angry, really hurt and really amped up, can we still stop…

If anything, calling her a deceitful traitor is a better jab - speaks to her poor character which is more of an insult than being a woman who has sex.

This.

The fact that you are writing a letter asking if it’s okay, pretty much tells you it isn’t. If your husband hadn’t been willing and able, this would be a non issue. He is the key piece of the puzzle, not the person he acted out with.

My friend was in a similar situation but instead of using misogynistic language, she used racist language to disparage her exes new girlfriend. Using misogynistic language perpetuates misogyny in a broader societal context, the horribleness of the person you are aiming your insults at is not relevant.

“Fucking asshole” is a good all-purpose label. Then elaborate on that as circumstances allow.

Exactly. She’s not concerned about sexualized gendered insults for her ex-husband because there really aren’t any. The English language is more than colorful enough to come up with something that doesn’t require perpetuating inequality.

My understanding is gendered insults are bad because they weaponize existing inequalities, not because you cannot criticize another woman. I can hate and curse out Ivanka all I want without needing to say ‘she’s bad AND she’s a woman’. Just leave the second part out, it doesn’t add anything.